Vista Demo Goes Awry

[mzkhadir]

Video

 

[dude8604]

That's not good...

 

[eits]

ugh... i need to dig up ie in order to view this....

 

[DnetMHZ]

They really don't have good luck when it comes to live demos.

 

[aceO07]

WTF. I have to use IE6 + Media Player 10 + Flash. I can bypass IE6 requirement and have Flash, but not going to install MP10.

 

[chuckywang]

IEView FTW!!

 

[ATLien247]

Vista has built-in voice recognition?

 

[chuckywang]

Anybody else find it ironic that the video is hosted by MSNBC?

EDIT: LOL, "The video you have requested is not available." Well, I wonder why.....

 

[TallBill]

Voice recognition sucks. It will be a VERY long time before there is good software out.

 

[eits]

Originally posted by: ATLien247
Vista has built-in voice recognition?

apparently not.

 

[ATLien247]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
IEView FTW!!

Or IETab...

 

[Descartes]

There were obviously some technical difficulties beyond the software, imo. No one in their right mind would demo software that hadn't worked flawlessly in previous tests and this demo was out of control.

 

[Quasmo]

Live television is rough on that woman, I feel like I could climb inside her mouth and still be able to build lofts.
EDIT: also that guy sounded so proud of himself for telling microsoft to shove it. I wanted to punch him.

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: TallBill
Voice recognition sucks. It will be a VERY long time before there is good software out.

The newest Dragon is supposed to be extremely good actually.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: aceO07
WTF. I have to use IE6 + Media Player 10 + Flash. I can bypass IE6 requirement and have Flash, but not going to install MP10.

Agree.

 

[notfred]

What happens in the video? It's not a very linux friendly website.

 

[thehstrybean]

Hahaha...

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: TallBill
Voice recognition sucks. It will be a VERY long time before there is good software out.

The newest Dragon is supposed to be extremely good actually.

I have been hearing that for like 10 years now.

 

[chuckywang]

Anybody got a mirror? It says the requested video is not available.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: notfred
What happens in the video? It's not a very linux friendly website.

they demo voice-to-typing software and it doesn't work. oddly enough, a different demo i saw had it working flawlessly.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: eits
ugh... i need to dig up ie in order to view this....

dig up? start > run > iexplore > OK is too hard for you?

 

[911paramedic]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: eits
ugh... i need to dig up ie in order to view this....

dig up? start > run > iexplore > OK is too hard for you?

Video is no longer available, at least thats what I got AFTER watching a freaking commercial.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
I have been hearing that for like 10 years now.

You have been hearing wrong. Voice recognition requires a minimum of 3 GHz processor power. And not 3 GHz of the inflated P4 speed, but real 3 GHz like the previous P3 or current AMD speed. We simply didn't have the speed we needed 10 years ago. Heck, we really just barely have it now.

Originally posted by: chuckywang
Anybody got a mirror? It says the requested video is not available.

It plays just fine for me.

Instead of typing "Dear Mom," it typed "Dear aunt,". Then in an attempt to "delete that" and "select all" it became: "Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all". And it had major delays in deciding to type this.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
I have been hearing that for like 10 years now.

You have been hearing wrong. Voice recognition requires a minimum of 3 GHz processor power. And not 3 GHz of the inflated P4 speed, but real 3 GHz like the previous P3 or current AMD speed. We simply didn't have the speed we needed 10 years ago. Heck, we really just barely have it now.

Then how come my phone can recognize any of my contacts' names, the names of music artists, file names and application names with absolutely no training on a 200MHz processor?

Obviously, it's not taking dictation like true voice recognition software will, but it's pretty impressive what it can recognize.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: loup garou
Then how come my phone can recognize any of my contacts' names, the names of music artists, file names and application names with absolutely no training on a 200MHz processor?

Obviously, it's not taking dictation like true voice recognition software will, but it's pretty impressive what it can recognize.

Your edit answered the question. Simple stuff can be done and has been done for years. Anything realistic like dictation with different accents or different pronunciations from the same person craps out.